they would not be hostile to the amendment. St. Leonards, as a child, might be said to have overgrown the parent [Oh, no! from Mr. Bromley]. Well, if not larger, she soon would be, and it was only fair that she should have her name recognised. The voting gave an equal number on each side, and the Mayor gave the casting vote for Mr. Winter’s motion, thus leaving the naming of the office to the Postmaster-General’s own decision.
The Convent Hoarding. At the meeting on March 1st, a memorial from owners and occupiers of property in Magdalen road was presented for steps to be taken to get the hoarding placed on the boundary wall of the Catholic grounds removed. A lengthy discussion ensued in which Coun. Putland moved that the police Act should be put in force for the removal of dangerous buildings, as on one occasion a portion had been blown down [by a violent hurricane he might have added]. The motion was not seconded, and Coun. Gausden moved that the Clerk should write to the Lady Superior, calling her attention to the insecure state of the hoarding, and respectfully requesting that she would cause it to be removed. Several members spoke favourably of endeavouring to get the hoarding removed by courtesy rather than by compulsion, they being of opinion that the annoyance in being overlooked by rude workmen had now passed away. Coun. Putland strongly insisted on the compulsory method, but Coun. Gausden’s motion was carried. – At the next meeting (May 5th), a note was read, in which the Lady Superior politely intimated that the hoarding was put up because a stone wall could not be afforded, and she would be happy to have it removed in the course of a few years if the trees there planted were found to afford a sufficient screen. – Coun. Putland was very energetic in his advocacy of compelling the removal of the hoarding without delay, and had to be called to order for using harsh terms towards the Lady Superior. – Coun. Gausden remarked that Mr. Putland’s zeal in the matter had only arisen since he had become interested in some of the contiguous property. – Coun. Winter also defended the Lady Superior from the aspersions which had been cast upon her. The report of the Roads Committee was that the Surveyor had inspected the hoarding at the Convent, and found it, in his opinion, dangerous to the public; the Committee therefore recommended steps to be taken under the provision of the Town’s Police Clauses Act. Messrs. Ginner & Bromley objected to the report as being of too arbitrary a character. The deputy clerk explained that a notice would be served in accordance with the terms of the Act, which would give an opportunity for making alterations or repairs, -
